India’s market is one of the largest in the world, with over 1 billion people and a growing economy. However, given the scope of its population and its millennia-long history, the demographics cannot be categorized clearly and easily, which is also true for its neighbor China.
First, the Constitution establishes that all federal government business, including [...]
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Translations for India
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009Language Statistics
Friday, August 21st, 2009• Quantity of living languages: 6912
• Quantity of language on the verge of extinction: 516
• Language with the largest quantity of native speakers: Mandarin Chinese
• Language spoken by the largest quantity of non-natives: English (250 million native speakers versus 350 million non-native speakers)
• Country where the largest variety of languages are spoken: Papua New Guinea [...]
Language, History, and Politics
Tuesday, August 18th, 2009When is a language really a language, and not just a set of dialects? That is a difficult question to answer, and the Spanish language is a perfect case in point. Though most people in non-Spanish speaking cultures are unaware of it, this Romance language has historically been plagued by infighting and antagonisms which arose [...]
